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Letter "R" » rifles
«A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back he ever wants to see a fucking cross? It's like going up to Jackie Onassis wearing a rifle pendant.»
Author: Bill Hicks
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Comedian)
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About:
Funny
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Keywords:
Christians,
cross,
crosses,
fucking,
Jackie,
Jesus,
necks,
Onassis,
pendant,
rifle,
rifled,
rifles,
wear,
wearing
«The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle!»
«Unlike children in other countries, the Eskimos played no game of war. They played with imaginary rifles and harpoons, but these were never directed against people but against the formidable beasts that haunted the vast wastes of their land.»
Author: Marie Herbert
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About:
Animals,
Children,
Play
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Keywords:
beasts,
directed,
Eskimo,
Eskimos,
formidable,
harpoon,
haunted,
rifles,
wastes
«Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.»
Author: Roger Waters
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Keywords:
barrels,
dim,
hurled,
merciless,
rifles,
scare,
Scared to Death,
The Blind,
The Shadows,
The Wall,
torturer,
unfeeling
«My rifle always remains the same. It's the pigeons who change.»
«We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.»
Author: Booker T. Washington
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Keywords:
alleyway,
alleyways,
beat down,
borrow,
languages,
occasion,
on occasion,
Other languages,
pockets,
pursued,
rifle,
rifled,
rifles,
unconscious
«Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
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Humorist,
Journalist,
Writer)
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About:
Christianity
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Keywords:
born-again Christian,
born again,
Christians,
cows,
dairy,
high-powered,
hunting,
powered,
rifle,
rifled,
rifles,
scope
«A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.»
«In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.»
«If someone wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it, so why worry about it»